This CDGA training course will feature:

• How to demonstrate assertiveness when necessary
• The application of techniques to win others to your way of thinking
• How to communicate confidently  to groups of people
• The application of techniques to get your point across strongly in a meeting
• How to communicate professionally to senior management

By the end of this course, delegates will learn about:

• Speak to groups in a way that will inspire and motivate them
• Put your message across  assertively in business meetings
• Get people to buy into your ideas
• Speak with passion and confidence
• Project confidence and credibility to those you work with

This course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Professionals in management support roles
• Analysts who typically encounter data / analytical information regularly in their work environment
• Those who seek to derive greater decision making value from data analytics   

Day One: Creating a Confident and Credible Image

• Where does self-confidence come from
• The comfort zone and its impact on business success
• Banishing the fear of speaking in public
• Self-perception and its impact on confidence
• How being confident can help you raise your profile
• Body language and its impact on credibility

Day Two: Confident Communication to Groups

• How to run efficient and effective meetings
• How to prepare for and structure a business presentation
• How to get over the nerves of giving a business presentation
• Dealing with questions from senior leaders
• How to sell yourself and your organization and your ideas
• Building rapport in business presentations

Day Three: Confident Communicating to Get Results

• The power of using stories to get messages across
• Using analogies effectively
• Using evidence to win people over to your way of thinking
• Increasing your personal power and charisma
• When to be strong and when to play weak
• Inclusive/exclusive language and its effect on people

Day Four: Communicating Passion

• The importance of passion
• Developing courage and confidence in conflict situations
• Beating  your comfort zone and taking more risks
• Using our full range of communication
• Powerful closes that move people to action
• Become a magnetic personality

Day Five: Enhancing your Profile within the Business

• How to conduct yourself to senior people
• How to sell change to people who don’t want to change
• How to sell unpopular policies to team
• How to make yourself memorable
• Be a radiator, not a drain
• The speaking challenge

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.